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season: early-spring
section: who keeps good company
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## good

- peas with carrots, the peas feed the soil and the carrots loosen it for what comes after
- lettuce among the radishes, the radishes break the crust before the lettuce roots reach
- spinach beside the strawberry rows, both like the cool and they share no quarrels
- onions tucked between the carrots, each one hides the other from its own fly
- potatoes and bush beans, the beans give back the nitrogen the potatoes pull out
- chamomile by the young brassicas, an old wives' kindness that turns out to be true
- marigolds at the edges of every bed, they earn their place from the first week to the last
- borage near where the tomatoes will go, plant it now so the bees know the way

## bad

- onions and peas keep no peace, the alliums stunt the legumes and the legumes resent it
- potatoes where the tomatoes lived last year, they share the same blight and the soil remembers
- garlic too close to the peas will keep the vines small all season
- fennel walks alone, plant it in a corner of its own or not at all
- dill near the carrots, it crosses with them and confuses the seed